Maple Valley

Chief Inspector Ryan believes he has left his troubled past behind him. But then, in the early hours of the summer solstice, the skeleton of a young woman is found inside a Roman wall at the famous Sycamore Gap site. She's been lying there undiscovered for ten years - and now Ryan has to put the pieces of her story together.
The threads of the investigation cross and intertwine as Ryan is forced to face his own demons and engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a killer who seems unstoppable.
Murder and mystery are spiced with a touch of romance and humour in this brisk detective novel set in the breathtaking landscape around Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland.